Moritz Christian Julius Thaulow


Moritz Christian Julius Thaulow was a Norwegian chemist.
Thaulow was born in the Duchy of Schleswig to Johan Frederik Thaulow and Caroline Henriette Tugendreich Looft. He was a brother of Heinrich Arnold Thaulow and Harald Thaulow, and a cousin of Henrik Wergeland and Camilla Collett. In 1839 he married Margreta Elisabeth Juel, and among their children was physician Johan Fredrik Thaulow and Hilda Thaulow, the mother of chemist Axel Aubert.
He studied chemistry in Kiel, and came to Christiania in 1832. After further studies in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin, Giessen and Paris, he returned to the university in Christiania. He was appointed professor in chemistry in 1844.